Account-book.



H. GIBSONl ACCOUNT BOOK.

APPLICATION HLED APn.21,1913.

PatentedNov. 16, 1915.

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H. GIBSON.

ACCOUNT BOOK.

APPLlcATloN F'lLED APR.21,1913.

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Patented Nov. 16, 1915.

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Be it known thatI, ,HAROLD .Grs'oN, a citizen of the United States-residing at '.Omaha, in the county of Douglas"andState of Nebraska, have invented certain new'` and` Y useful 'Improvements in'Account-Books, of Y f which the following is a specification. v Thisfinventionrelates-to a combined time; ...book .and job record, particularlyjadapted. iforvuse in connection with maehineshops or the like, where labor eXpen'dedLin repair-l Y ing -articles Ybelonging to others is paid )fory ,by thehour, andcharges against the 'own- Y each of the half-width sheets being formed,

VlicCOUNT-Book.

ers ofzthearticles are based. onv the number of hours required in making repairs;

In carrying on thefbusinessof-manufac 'i turing establishments and rep'air'shops it is customary for the proprietor'when making charges forconstruetion or repairs, to enter the itemsof debitsat'the actual cost of'labor 'and materialr'with a percentage of profits added. v .The account and Vits several items,

therefore, should be such that "either a Y debtorf or creditor may conveniently inspect and/find the'items.

The object Vof the invention is 'to provide a book so4 arranged that a record for specific.

periods may be kept to show, incomp'act form, time-creditA entries for the employees, 1 videntification of the several employees; fand 1 separately, to show identification VVof the Y debtors onparties for Whom the work was performed, and to provide a record showt ing? the time specifically expended foreaclirw A sheet gand, yin part, upon page b of sheet debtor-'onr each liob4 or contract'and the names of the workmen who performed the serv- `.ice therefor and dates when performed, and

lwhieh will provide af means for 'provingac- Y curacyy ofthe accounts, and exhibit totals of allof the items for eachof the'peri'ods; also Y since' more than one-order-rn'ay bei given' by f the same .individual during a single nperiod,

the account book herein described provides.

f for the numbering of lall ofthe orders, so

that no confusion may arise.Y

With vthe foregoingy objects in View and 'others to be mentioned herein, the inven- 1 tion consists of the novel Ycombination and the drawing vvherein,-l l

arrangement of parts as will now `be described and claimed, vand as illustra-ted in Y Specification of Letters -Patent.

Appnea'tin med April 21,1913. serial No. 7152,445.A

2 is av view 'of one of the (half-width sheets, being the-y reverse side view jto that shown Patenteaivov. 16,1915.

in F ig. Lig. 3 is afbreken 'View showing W ranged .in series, each series being vfor a 'specicper'l'od of time, and comprising a first page a of a leaf a', a lastpage b of a yleaf b', anda pluralityV of .intermediate half- .width lsheetsV identified as c, cl," e, f and g,

part, upon any one of the pages of the half# wldth' ysheets and upon the adjacent Apage of a succeeding vhalf-width sheet.. For the first working day of the Aweekasj, for instance, Feb. l3, 1913, the entries maybe made, in part, upon pagek a' of leaf 0; as shown in Figa-1, and Vf'upon the adjacent page o of sheet fc rshown'iii Fig. 2; and for the last .working day of the week, shown in Fig. 1 as Feb. 8th, 1913, the entries may, `in part,

be madev upon the last page of the half-width b as shown in Fig.v 73: The pa'ges-thusmentioned are provid'e'dwith Yhorizontal lines z' vvand vertical lines j whichintersect to provide spaces 7c for entering credits for the number of hours of work performed by the, employees, and upright lines'Z are provided andlconnected with the vertical lines to providel spaces m for indicating the names lof persons Who 'ordered the work and who, therefore, wouldbecome debtors When their contracts were completed.y

v At n yare indicated horizontal', double or sight-lines provided for all lof theY pages,

'l and above theupper sight-line and intersected by lines j' is ahoriz'ontal line oto fprovide-,spaces- 72 for entering the vnumbers Aof the vord'ersgnth'is' being necessary since more than A'one :ordermay be y given by the ticular jobl is entered in the spaces c'which. appear horizontally opposite the vnames iofV i the employees, 'and vertically below the Ytheir corresponding numbers.

`an accountof the amount `of laborrexpended *upon each order, thenumber of h'ours'each' same individual and that the Work performed on each order mayy be kept sep-V arately and identified.

The first page is provided withtwoverti-m cal columns g and fr for the'entry therein,

respectively, of the names of employees and For keeping employee has vworked eachv dayion aparorder.. At the bottom of each 'pageis progvided a horizontal double-liners, and below V,this line the totals are entered showing all@ of the hours of work performed on eac hcon-V f tract,each day.'` lt vwill thus vbe seen. that an account'may be kept in compact form show-` ingY how Vmany hours should be chargedV againsteach order, 7also identifying .thelemployees who performed the work, 'and atA the a lsame time crediting them with their labor.

for reference. n A shows thatjob or contract Number 1 entered that on Feb. 3rd, `1913, four hours .work

vThis greatly simplifies the work. ofvbookkeeping and provides aV convenient record For instance the record on paged-is charged to Jno. Jones,and

was performed bv employee Jackson No. l;

vksixrhoursby Williams, No. tyeight hours l Smith, 'the employee being Johnson, Hoff- .fman Aand Larson, the respectivenumber of. hours for eachfbeing 8,-v 7 and 4L.' v-Fig: y1 Y shows the names of other employees in column V7, together with certainv hourscredited in spaces 7c with labor, and the names of others inserted'in spaces m who 5 `.have-given ordersfor work, on different* "days for the week ending Feb. 8th, .1918,

these items appearing on pages a and o and on the"halfwidth sheets, Lbut these addi-- tional entries require no. explanation. since it will be understood that, for allcontracts entered into during the period, the names of the parties orderingthe. work vto be performed are entered in spaces m as debtors curacy of the account for labor, and for this purpose, inl part, a summary' diagram t is lines z': of pages a, b and with the horizontal' f 'lines i of theA-half-widthsheets, andvertical lines o are provided which intersect. lines u1 to form spaces lw Y and thereby providingk vertical columns for theentry'therein of the total number of hours of work performed-by each workman for each day ,of

the period. At the head Aof each of these columns in said'diagramthe days'of'the VVweek maybe suitably designated as shown in Fig. "l, and by entering the totals ofthe 2 number ;ofv hours `*which have been entered,

the accountrmay be proven since a com'- totals. with the total number Y of Vhoursgfound at :the rbottoin. of the severalV pages,-` fThe summaryfioliagram, may ,also'be used -for keeping an; account of the rate per' Vhourl lpaid toltherworkmen, .amount'earned by parison may bemade. ofV thesuni of theser them and amounts advanced VandV paidto them forr'labor performed, as indicated by` vertical columnsw, m". and y, V@,fand the",

totals of these items `may be entered at the foot of thesecolumns.VV Y f' Among some. of :the advantages to bede- Vhours employedin work,;the .factthat the Vrived'by use of the herein described account particular work was paid for by the hour c to the workman, and the fact that the record discloses the name vof Veachv workman and the number of hours devoted -1 to' Ieach n job'y or contract, ought to kbe conclusive as to accuracy; and the account is'in such, shape that YallY oftheitems for yproving its accuracy are assembled in compact form, this fbeing a matter of convenience whenlreferring-toit as a record, andV when entering the items. f

.Having vfully :described invention, what I claim and desire to securev by Letters Patent is,-k f

A combineditime book and jobhrecord for specificperiods,` comprising, in combination with ay leafl provided at its top withy a Vhorizontalniargin and intermediate its bottom and horizontal margin with horizontal lines, and having a vertical maiginiadapted to'. bea-r the Ynames of `employees and pro- Y vided with a horizontal line Vnearits top forvbearing a date of the: specific period and aplurality of vertical lines intersectying the horizontal lines to form spaces oppo- .fsite the names of the employees, said leaf and numberedin `spaces 7J, the'entries being 1 being provided lin its horizontal margin with parallel lines disposed incli-nedlyv-'and` .connected with the vertical lines of said leaf, Vsecondary leaves each having 1an outwardly projectingpart adjacent to therv junction of its vertical and upperV horizontal edges provided with a horizontal line for bearing a vdate of said specilicperiod, and provided with horizontallines Vadapted to register with the horizontal lines of the first lnamed 1,16o,27e f y 3 leaf,-eaeh secondary leaf also being pro- In 'testimony whereof I have affixed my viredat its'toplvvith a horizontal margin signature in presence of two Witnesses.

an with vertice ines interseotinmits hori- 7 T zontalr lines to. form spaces lthezil'eloetween ,y HAROLD GIBSON and provided at its horizontal margin with Witnesses: j parallel inclined lines connected with the HIRAM AISTURGES, Vertical lines thereof.A Y ARTHR H. STURGES.

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